Sony should try to save Ready At Dawn from closure and purchase Crash + Spyro IPs
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Ready at Dawn deserves another shot. 1886 just needs more gameplay and combat.
But I dont see MS selling Crash and Spyro to Sony. Doubt that will ever happen. Knowing that Sony has Ratchet, Astrobot, Jak and Sly cooper to make platformers on. As much as Id like a newSpyro and that they are both different to games i mentioned above.
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these games deserve to come back to their original studios, Insomniac and Naughty Dog...
If they can get the devs without paying money to Meta sure.
As for Crash & Spyro, I doubt Sony would invest the required amount. The IP alone would probably set them back $250+ million. Then you'll need 2 dedicated teams working on those IP
As for Crash & Spyro, I doubt Sony would invest the required amount. The IP alone would probably set them back $250+ million. Then you'll need 2 dedicated teams working on those IP
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imagine sony owning Crash, Spyro, Ratchet, Sly, Jak and Astro, they would have Nintendo level of nostalgia attached to them
If they had small studios making those, it would be perfect for the platforming/mascot side of PS
Ratchet and Astrobot have worked out, so no reason why the others wouldnt if done properly
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yeah, but Sony has a lot of care for these mascots, at least the ones that they still make games for, so the level of what they could do with Spyro and Crash could be incredible, unfortunately MS owns it... and they'll ruin it to the fucking ground like they always do
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Microsoft owning both Crash and Spyro is great and far better than ABK owning them. First, I'll get to play them without having to spend $40+ on them. Like, fuck that. Second, they let Toys For Bob go and my guess is that they're working on a new Crash or Spyro game so no worries there. Third, why would Microsoft sell these IP's when they've wanted more "kiddie" IP's for years? They're bigger and more popular than Banjo so I seriously doubt that Microsoft would sell them off but hey, never say never.
Sony should get Ready at Dawn but I don't see Sony resurrecting any now defunct studio nor do I see them acquiring anyone unless it's a small AA level acquisition like Arrowhead Studios. Would love a sequel to The Order 1886 but it's highly unlikely that any of this will happen.
Sony should get Ready at Dawn but I don't see Sony resurrecting any now defunct studio nor do I see them acquiring anyone unless it's a small AA level acquisition like Arrowhead Studios. Would love a sequel to The Order 1886 but it's highly unlikely that any of this will happen.
If Meta cares about their people or reducing loses, they'd have tried to sell the studio before shutting it down. But maybe didn't want to sell it to the best selling non-standalone VR maker, Sony.
SIE also acquired many companies in recent years and they paused aquisitions until they complete paying costs related to the previous ones. Plus is also opening different new SIE dev studios and are also in a moment where they reducing costs to improve profitability and also waiting to sell in a year or so most of their banks/finances division to get cash for mostly entertainment acquisitions.
So pretty likely even in the case that Meta would be open to sell them to Sony and Sony could have been interested on acquiring RaD, now maybe isn't a good moment for SIE acquisitions.
There's also the possibility that RaD and Sony ended their relationship in a bad way because who knows what reasons, and maybe Sony isn't interested on investing on internally developed VR games for a while.
It's a shame, because I think RaD would be a great fit, were super talented and had a lot of potential.
Regarding Crash and Spyro, I think MS bougth them to have them in their list of IPs when compared to Sony, and also to make their ABK acquisition look better. Even if they don't plan to properly use them. I highly doubt they'd want to sell them to Sony.
At the same time, I think Sony has many dormant IPs that are more important/big sellers than Crash or Spyro, which are dormant because they have their teams busy with other stuff. So I don't think they'd be interested to get IPs to pretty likely keep them dormant.
It had some flaws but in many areas was better than most games of the time, and in these areas continues being better than most titles published until today.
SIE also acquired many companies in recent years and they paused aquisitions until they complete paying costs related to the previous ones. Plus is also opening different new SIE dev studios and are also in a moment where they reducing costs to improve profitability and also waiting to sell in a year or so most of their banks/finances division to get cash for mostly entertainment acquisitions.
So pretty likely even in the case that Meta would be open to sell them to Sony and Sony could have been interested on acquiring RaD, now maybe isn't a good moment for SIE acquisitions.
There's also the possibility that RaD and Sony ended their relationship in a bad way because who knows what reasons, and maybe Sony isn't interested on investing on internally developed VR games for a while.
It's a shame, because I think RaD would be a great fit, were super talented and had a lot of potential.
Regarding Crash and Spyro, I think MS bougth them to have them in their list of IPs when compared to Sony, and also to make their ABK acquisition look better. Even if they don't plan to properly use them. I highly doubt they'd want to sell them to Sony.
At the same time, I think Sony has many dormant IPs that are more important/big sellers than Crash or Spyro, which are dormant because they have their teams busy with other stuff. So I don't think they'd be interested to get IPs to pretty likely keep them dormant.
Yes, The Order had a lot of potential.
It had some flaws but in many areas was better than most games of the time, and in these areas continues being better than most titles published until today.
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Sony didn't really have interest in continuing the Order after its critical issues, AND the studio has spent nearly a decade as a VR game company, surely undergoing massive staffing changes in that time, AND I suspect that RaD was a skeleton crew for a year or so now, anyway, after Facebook laid half or more of the team off earlier on.
Crash and spyro are owned by Microsoft now they aren't giving those ip to sony. Also ready at dawn isn't the same company it once was they've been working on nothing but vr for the better part of a decade most of their devs are specialist in that now and they've had layoffs and staffing shifts they aren't really the same ppl who made the order anymore. They also have no ip and meta is probably interested in holding on to all their tech they invested in. All sony would get is a shell with a name they would cost 10s of millions even at bargain been prices and then they would have to wait half a decade at least to get a game out of them. That's a waste of resources for a dev that hasn't had a anything approaching a successful game in probably about 15yrs.
